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Robert Blake, an actor, and accused murderer passed away at 89.

Alicia Brian Published March 10, 2023
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Robert Blake, an actor whose career was overshadowed by accusations of his wife’s murder, has died at 89. He was known as the titular hero of the 1970s TV detective series Baretta and starred in the 1997 film Lost Highway, but his career blundered following his wife’s 2001 deadly shooting.

He was charged with her murder and acquitted, but later found liable for her death in civil court. Blake died “peacefully with family and friends”, his family said. On Thursday, a statement released by his niece, Noreen Austin said he had died from heart disease. As a child, the New Jersey citizen got his start by emerging in the Our Gang comedy series after his family shifted to California.

With a career starting in the late 1930s, he acted in the classic film The Treasure of the Sierra Madre and as the assassin Perry Smith in a 1967 adaptation of Truman Capote’s novel In Cold Blood. He also had a role on the NBC series Hell Town and was nominated for an Emmy for CBS made-for-TV movie Judgement Day: The John List Story.

Once considered among the greatest actors of his generation, his career never rebounded after his detention. Mr. Blake’s wife, Bonny Lee Bakley, was alone in the actor’s car in the Studio City neighborhood of Los Angeles when she was shot.

Blake informed police he had left her alone to return to the Italian restaurant where they had just dined to recover a gun he had left behind and found her dead. Four years after her death, including a year of Mr. Blake awaiting trial in jail, a jury in LA found him not guilty of her murder.
Many comparisons were made at the time to the trial of megastar OJ Simpson, who had been acquitted of killing his ex-wife in Los Angeles 10 years earlier.

He was later ordered by a judge in a civil case to pay $30m (£25m) to the children of his ex-wife which led him to declare bankruptcy. He unsuccessfully petitioned but managed to get the fine sum split to $15m. Mr. Blake always claimed his innocence.

He had four children during his life and was married to actress Sondra Kerr for 22 years before their 1983 divorce. In 2017 he married longtime friend Pamela Hudak, but they divorced two years later.

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